At Basil Bandwagon, you can find holiday gifts and stocking stuffers around every corner. While you’re picking up your lunch or doing your grocery shopping with us, why not finish your last minute holiday gift shopping too?
You can gift Sustainable
The latest styles from Hydroflask, Clean Kanteen, Decomposition 100% recycled paper notebooks
You can gift Local
Noble Mushrooms grow your own mushroom kits, Hold Your Horses soaps, Bee flower Honey, Bubbly Goat soaps and lotions
Cookbooks, nutrition and wellness books, herbal teas and medicines, and Basil Bandwagon Gift Cards
Shopping local at Basil Bandwagon and purchasing items we stock from local producers helps sustain family businesses and contributes to a strong and sustainable local economy. Buying fairly traded gifts helps sustain safe and healthy conditions and fair pay for artisans of handmade items around the world. No reason to keep it to just this holiday season – we have a year-round selection of gifts at all three locations, with new items arriving every day!
Bananas and chocolate are a classic combination for good reason. They simply taste better together! Try this banana-chocolate crumb cake with fair trade ingredients for a dish that tastes as good as it is for people the people and the planet.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9 by 9 inch baking pan and line with parchment paper. In a small bowl combine the crumb topping ingredients until well mixed. Set aside.
In a large bowl combine remaining flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together remaining brown sugar, and cane sugar until well blended. Beat in eggs, one at a time until incorporated. Stir in bananas, and vanilla.
Add half of the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. Stir gently to combine. Add half the buttermilk and stir gently to combine. Repeat with remaining dry ingredients and buttermilk.
Fold chocolate chips into the batter. Pour batter into the prepared baking pan and top with crumb mixture. Bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow cake to cool 10 minutes before removing from pan.
Their story begins with two strong-willed, creative women…
☑ Women-Owned
☑ Small Business
☑ Locally Made in Somerville, NJ
☑ Made in Small Batches
☑ 100% Natural Skin Care
You don’t often see a mother in-law/daughter in-law team of entrepreneurs like this one. Theresa was a stay-at-home mom with a background in health and nutrition. Shirley was newly retired and looking for something meaningful to do with her extra time. After years of working for the man, Shirley decided it would be more fun to work for herself. Together, in 2018, this mother/daughter in-law duo decided to take on the world of natural skin care products.
Now, about making the world a better place. Theresa and Shirley care deeply about their community. They’ve decided to pay it forward by donating 5% of all profits to the following organizations: Steps Together, the ACLU and The Trevor Project.
Shirley and Theresa Bonner love their planet and their community. They are proud to have their on-line and wholesale business based in Somerville, NJ and have taken every opportunity to help make Somerville and the world, a better place to live.
‘Nothing Hidden. Just pure love for your skin.’
All of Third Child Wellness Boutique products are free of parabens, perfumes, phthalates, SLS and petrolatum.
Check out some of their NATURAL skin care products below ↴
Dry Skin?
All of their skin repair butters can be used on lips, hands, feet, elbows arms, legs, knees, necks, tummies, shoulders, backs and any other body part you can think of. People with thick, curly hair can use it to add shine and control! It is, however, for external use only.
Available: Dude, Relax; Lumberjacked; Nagmasté; Sageing Grace; Sunny G
Achy Joints?
This massage oil blend is amazing for easing every day aches and pains. They, of course, use organic avocado oil as a base for their spicy warming massage blend.
Available: Ooo, Spicy
Itchy Beard?
Their handmade, small batch beard oils are a one-of-a-kind experience for the facial hair wearing humans out there. All of their beard oils are made with organic avocado oil that is cold-infused with organic, fair-trade coffee grounds. It is nourishing, smooth and smells so good on those course beards, side burns and mustaches! Take care of itchy skin and ingrown hair while looking and smelling amazing all day long.
Available: Lumberjacked; Americano
Seeing Spots?
Espress Yo inner beauty on the outside! Their handmade coffee oil is truly amazing for evening out skin tone as well as reducing the appearance of fine lines and age spots. Their use organic avocado oil to infuse their coffee oil skin treatment, and add a grapefruit or lavender essential oil for a light, lovely scent.
Big sniff… hold it… ahhh… their aromatherapy room and body sprays freshen your home or office space anytime you need it. Because their sprays are pure and natural, you can spray them directly onto your skin to refresh yourself anytime, anyplace.
Available: Chill-Ax; Get Yo Zeez; Lumberjacked; Sageing Grace; Yowee Zowee
Enjoy Long Showers?
Love a great bath bomb, but don’t have a tub? No time for candles and bubbles? Treat yourself to an aromatherapy sauna session in your own shower. Simply place one of their beautifully scented steamers on the floor of your shower and let the water do the rest.
Available: Chill-Ax; Sageing Grace; Yowee Zowee
Sensitive Pits?
Their soft, spreadable natural deodorant won’t irritate your delicate underarm skin or clog pores. They use only gently, pure ingredients to keep you smelling fresh and spicy all day long.
Available: New Spice
While you’re out getting your holiday shopping done this season, remember to #ShopSmall & #ShopLocal! By shopping at your favorite local natural market (like us!), you are supporting families who started a small business to help make the world a little bit better & brighter!
Endangered Species Holiday Chocolates: Caramel Spiced Apple, Peppermint Crunch, and more!
Hyggelight Holiday Candles: Chai, Christmas & Thyme, and Cinnamon Apple
Intelligent Elixirs: Brightening Serum, Botanical A Night Serum, Pure Squalane, Refining Gel Cleanser, Rose Foaming Cream Cleanser, Citrus Facial Scrub, Vitamin B5 Hydrating Serum, Anti-Aging Serum, Total Eye Repair, Antioxidant Moisturizer, and Ultra Restorative Moisturizer
Lake Champlain Holiday Chocolates
Little Secrets: Holiday Peppermint Chocolate Pieces
Maggie’s Organics: Wool Snuggle & Sweater Socks!
Theo Holiday Chocolates: Gingerbread Spice, Cranberry Orange, and more!
